SUSE Job Trends in England

SUSE Linux
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SUSE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 672 605 784
Rank change year-on-year -67 +179 +115
Permanent jobs citing SUSE 7 12 45
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.009% 0.032% 0.054%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.14% 0.20% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 37
10th Percentile - £34,554 £31,650
25th Percentile £26,265 £46,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,860 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% -2.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £54,102 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £59,961 £69,875 -
UK median annual salary £50,860 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.79% -2.00% -34.43%

All Operating Systems
England

SUSE falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,878 6,066 12,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.20% 16.12% 14.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,664 4,072 10,036
10th Percentile £27,645 £27,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £48,306 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.84% +7.35% -14.29%

SUSE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SUSE relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

SUSE job vacancy trend in England

SUSE
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SUSE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SUSE

SUSE
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SUSE in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SUSE in England

SUSE
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SUSE within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 4 £50,860 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £26,265 -
Midlands - 3 £26,265 -
SUSE
UK

SUSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Graduate
2 3 (42.86%) Graduate Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Graduate Systems Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Support
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Systems Support
2 3 (42.86%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) CentOS
2 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (42.86%) FinOps
2 3 (42.86%) GitOps
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Mathematics
2 3 (42.86%) Observability
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Ticket Management
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Argo
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
1 3 (42.86%) Rancher
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) SAP